Grammar matters

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coby2

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Willie-T said:
Well, it takes a long time before you can get a publishing company to publish you, so most preachers and Theologians have to self-publish. Not many of them have anywhere near all the money some on here claim they do, so the typing, consolidation and proofing is often handled by family and friends. That is seldom a really "professional" group. They don't deliberately set out to publish books with grammatical errors and typos, but it happen more than you might think.
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Oh okay hahahahaha they told me all American preachers had private jets and swimming pools, my, they can't even afford a publisher.
My brother translates christian English/American books to Dutch, but that's with a publisher. It's all quite cheap those christian books, they often have translators who do it for free, but there's always someone who checks it all LOL and then they change the title into something directly translated from English, which is wrong in Dutch and he gets so annoyed, but they pay and it's their book.
 
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coby2 said:
Oh okay hahahahaha they told me all American preachers had private jets and swimming pools, my, they can't even afford a publisher.
My brother translates christian English/American books to Dutch, but that's with a publisher. It's all quite cheap those christian books, they often have translators who do it for free, but there's always someone who checks it all LOL and then they change the title into something directly translated from English, which is wrong in Dutch and he gets so annoyed, but they pay and it's their book.
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Despite there being a few hundred mega churches in America (Norte), the average congregation in this country numbers about 70 people. A preacher doesn't get rich like that.
 
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coby2 said:
Oh okay hahahahaha they told me all American preachers had private jets and swimming pools, my, they can't even afford a publisher.
My brother translates christian English/American books to Dutch, but that's with a publisher. It's all quite cheap those christian books, they often have translators who do it for free, but there's always someone who checks it all LOL and then they change the title into something directly translated from English, which is wrong in Dutch and he gets so annoyed, but they pay and it's their book.
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BTW, swimming pools are very common here in Florida and in California. And not that expensive for a basic pool. Here, a 32' x 16' would run about 25 to 30k. The average new, 4 bd. rm. house without a pool is $300,000.
 
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Willie-T said:
BTW, swimming pools are very common here in Florida and in California. And not that expensive for a basic pool. Here, a 32' x 16' would run about 25 to 30k. The average new, 4 bd. rm. house without a pool is $300,000.
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Oh that's nice. My sister put one in her backyard herself.
 
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Willie-T said:
Despite there being a few hundred mega churches in America (Norte), the average congregation in this country numbers about 70 people. A preacher doesn't get rich like that.
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70? That's just like the churches here.
I've only been to Toronto and Baton Rouge, church of Larry Stockstill. That was huge and they had these big huge cars. We went to a restaurant with a couple who had aeroplane chairs in their car and tv's for the kids. Just like in the movies.
 
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Dude653 said:
Funny how I have Kenyan friends on Facebook who speaks Swahili as their first language but their grammar is better than most Americans.
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You're part of the problem.

I'll write it again so it sinks in.

YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

You simply can't make this stuff up, folks.
 
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If you ever for some weird reason learn Norwegian, DO NOT read job ads. You will want to hunt down the companies and kick some backsides.... more than half the ads mess up the grammar when trying to write that they want the employees to have good grammar skills....
 
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wwjd_kilden said:
If you ever for some weird reason learn Norwegian, DO NOT read job ads. You will want to hunt down the companies and kick some backsides.... more than half the ads mess up the grammar when trying to write that they want the employees to have good grammar skills....
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Dessuten krever alle annonsene at man eeeeeelsker et hektisk, dynamisk, energisk (samt en drøss med andre ord for at man liker å jobbe r.... av seg) miljø...haha...
 
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jennymae said:
Dessuten krever alle annonsene at man eeeeeelsker et hektisk, dynamisk, energisk (samt en drøss andre ord for at man liker å jobbe r.... av seg) miljø...haha...
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lol, ja :p
 
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jennymae said:
Dessuten krever alle annonsene at man eeeeeelsker et hektisk, dynamisk, energisk (samt en drøss andre ord for at man liker å jobbe r.... av seg) miljø...haha...
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Google translate, you had one job...and you failed miserably.

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jennymae said:
Dessuten krever alle annonsene at man eeeeeelsker et hektisk, dynamisk, energisk (samt en drøss med andre ord for at man liker å jobbe r.... av seg) miljø...haha...
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Ya think just being lazy would get me hired?
 
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Willie-T said:
Did they really have such a thing over there? Here, all a teacher ever had might be a stand to hold their book.
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Never heard of it either tbh. Found one from 1900:

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shineyourlight said:
Google translate, you had one job...and you failed miserably.

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This is how my ex communicates with his wife. She only speaks Portugese and a few words English. They use an ipad with Google translate or he uses his hands. Really funny to see.
I asked her once in English if it was a long flight. She did not understand it, so he flapped with his hands in the air imitating an aeroplane, saying flight how long, slamming on his watch.
Funny.
 
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coby2 said:
This is how my ex communicates with his wife. She only speaks Portugese and a few words English. They use an ipad with Google translate or he uses his hands. Really funny to see.
I asked her once in English if it was a long flight. She did not understand it, so he flapped with his hands in the air imitating an aeroplane, saying flight how long, slamming on his watch.
Funny.
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When my wife and her roommate first arrived in Germany for three years of teaching GI's there, they neither one could speak more than ten words of German between the two of them. They did the same thing that husband did for months as they hurried to learn the language. And, on their holidays, they traveled to every country over there (within a certain driving distance) doing exactly the same thing for each new language.
 
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